Weird Choppiness during gaming. Sound loops and no movement on screen.

Urbanengineer · Jul 25, 2014

Hello Tom's Hardware. My computer has the following:

AMD FX-8350 CPU
NVidia Asus 660 Ti
ASRock 970 Extreme4 Motherboard
Crucial 2x4GB of Ram Chips in same color slots
Inland Gold Series ILG-600-2 600 Watt ATX Power Supply
DVI-D Connection to old HP 60Hz Monitor
SSD Main Drive
HDD Storage Drive
Coolermaster evo 212 CPU cooler (everyone should come with this awesome cooler).

When I play games like LOL or Thief, I notice that every once in a while my screen will freeze and the music will stutter for a split second causing bad choppiness or other issues. This also may occur when I am just simply opening up the internet. The mouse will jump from spot to spot instead of moving fluidly like the normal. This a two week old build so I can't imagine it is a hardware failure just yet. Games play solid at 60 fps when I keep VSync on. Hardware is up to date and Mobo has the latest updates also. No OCing of anything, aftermarket coolermaster cpu cooler (QUIET!!!).

Any Clue? If this is related to the GPU then I would like to upgrade, because I hear I can get better FPS on AC4.

Thank you.

SlayZombi · Jul 25, 2014

Graphics may be the problem, but I wanna make sure I am correct. Go play your most intense game, and give me the temperature readings. If you don't have a program for this, I suggest getting the one linked below:

http://www.hwinfo.com/download.php

geofelt · Jul 25, 2014

I suspect your psu. I think it is made by diablotek which is a tier 5 (not recommended, replace asap) unit on this list:
https://community.newegg.com/eggxpert/computer_hardware/f/135081/t/45344.aspx?Redirected=true
No $40 600w psu is any good.
Even if it worked properly and delivered full power, it will not have the protective circuitry needed if it fails under load. It can destroy all your parts. Buy a Seasonic 620w psu as a replacement, regardless.

I doubt that your graphics card is a problem. You get issues when the gpu is not stressed like opening up the internet.

Are you on windows 8.1? It seems that 8.1 helps better manage the 4 cores/4 threads on the FX cpu's

SlayZombi · Jul 25, 2014

geofelt :

I suspect your psu. I think it is made by diablotek which is a tier 5 (not recommended, replace asap) unit on this list:
https://community.newegg.com/eggxpert/computer_hardware/f/135081/t/45344.aspx?Redirected=true
No $40 600w psu is any good.
Even if it worked properly and delivered full power, it will not have the protective circuitry needed if it fails under load. It can destroy all your parts. Buy a Seasonic 620w psu as a replacement, regardless.

I doubt that your graphics card is a problem. You get issues when the gpu is not stressed like opening up the internet.

Are you on windows 8.1? It seems that 8.1 helps better manage the 4 cores/4 threads on the FX cpu's

XFX also makes GREAT PSU's.

Urbanengineer · Jul 25, 2014

On windows 8.1. 3 seconds from bios to full load

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The PSU problem would make sense, but others report the computer stopping and starting when they had a bad PSU. I'll take it back to Mcenter after my next trip to Cincinnati. Do you still want the temp readings?

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